Past Project – Page 2 – Violence Against Women and Children

STACY: Safe and Together Addressing ComplexitY

Posted by: admin Posted on: May 25, 2019 Past Project

The STACY Project aims to investigate and develop practitioner and organisational capacity to work collaboratively across services providing interventions to children and families living with domestic and family violence (DFV) and where there are parental issues of mental health (MH) and alcohol and other drug use (AOD) co-occurring. The expertise of practitioners will be harnessed through Communities of Practice (CoP), which will be capacity built through training and coaching provided by the US-based, Safe & Together Institute’s resources and consultants. Researchers will work alongside each CoP in each of the three states involved (NSW, Qld and Vic) to support and investigate changes in professional practice, inter-agency working, and the organisational change necessary to support ongoing development. The expertise of Project Advisory Group members situated in each state will be drawn on to develop practitioner and organisational guidance for improved collaborative working in this complex area.

Researchers:

Principle Investigator: Cathy Humphreys

Project manager/ Chief Investigator: Lucy Healey

Jasmin Isobe (UoM)

Susan Heward-Belle; Lesley Laing; Cherie Toivonen; Erin Links (University of Sydney);

Menka Tsantefski; Patrick O’Leary; Amy Young; Tracy Wild (Griffith)

Funders: Department of Social Services

Partners:

Safe & Together Institute (USA)

QLD – Caboolture offices/branches

Institute for Urban Indigenous Health Family Wellbeing Service (IUHI)
Lives Lived Well Drugs and Alcohol Service
Queensland Health (Acute Care Mental Health Team)
Queensland Police Service
Queensland Corrective Services, Probation and Parole
Uniting Care Men’s Behaviour Change Program
Centre Against Domestic Abuse (CADA), Domestic Violence Service
Department of Child Safety, Youth and Women
Walking with Dads
Women’s legal service
Mercy community services, Caring Dads program

NSW

NSW Health Central Coast and Western Sydney offices
CatholicCare
Yerin, Eleanor Duncan Aboriginal Health Centre
The Glen Centre
Kamira Alcohol and Other Drug Treatment Services
Jannawi Family Services
Kildare Road Medical Centre, Blacktown
Family and Community Services, Community Service Centre, Auburn
Domestic Violence NSW

VIC (asterisked agencies participating in PAG only)

Anglicare Victoria
Berry Street
Bethany Community Support
Centre for Excellence in Child and Family Welfare*
Child Protection
Domestic Violence Victoria*
Kids First
McAuley
No to Violence*
Barwon Health
Alfred Child & Youth Mental Health Service
Early in Life Mental Health Service, Monash Health
Youth Support and Advocacy Service
Orange Door, Family Safety Victoria
Odyssey House
Uniting/Kildonan

Project Dates: 2018 – 2019

Contact: Cathy Humphreys

Publications:

Practice Guide: Working at the intersections of domestic and family violence, parental substance misuse and/or mental health issues Download

Summary Practice Guide: Working at the intersections of domestic and family violence, parental substance misuse and/or mental health issues Download

Final Report: Working at the intersections of domestic and family violence, parental substance misuse and/or mental health issues Download

Isobe, J., Healey, L. & Humphreys, C. (2020). A critical interpretive synthesis of the intersection of domestic violence with parental issues of mental health and substance use. Health and Social Care in the Community, 28(5), 1394–1407.

PATRICIA: PAThways and Research Into Collaborative Inter-Agency practice – Collaborative work across the child protection and specialist domestic and family violence interface

Posted by: admin Posted on: May 25, 2019 Past Project

This project explored the relationship between statutory child protection and specialist domestic and family violence services in order to discern the elements that facilitate differential pathways and appropriate integrated service system support for the safety and well-being of women and children living with and separating. Children’s service pathways were examined using NSW, Western Australian and Victorian administrative datasets. The findings, together with an international scoping review, case studies of good practice in five states, and a case reading process (developed by the Safe & Together Institute) of 25 child protection files (five per state) was undertaken. Findings were synthesised and a collaborative framework developed to strengthen the co-design of service systems.

Researchers:

Principle Investigator: Cathy Humphreys

Project manager: Lucy Healey

NSW: Lesley Laing; Susan Heward-Belle, Cherie Toivonen (USydney); Ilan Katz

Qld: Menka Tsantefski, Patrick O’Leary; Amy Young, Tracy Wilde (Griffith);

SA: Sarah Wendt (Flinders); Fiona Buchanan (USA);

Vic: Marie Connolly, Aron Shlonsky, Jennifer Ma, Christine Eastman, Colleen Jeffreys, Anna Bornemisza (UoM); Deb Kirkwood (DVRCV); Michelle Macvean, Robyn Mildon (Parenting Research Centre)

WA: Donna Chung, Damian Green, Sarah Anderson (Curtin).

Funders: Australia’s National Research Organisation for Women’s Safety (ANROWS)

Partners:

Department of Health and Human Services Child Protection
Domestic Violence Resource Centre Victoria
DV Vic.
No To Violence
Victorian Aboriginal Child Care Agency
Women’s Legal Service Victoria
Department of Family and Community Services
University of Sydney
Women’s Legal Service NSW
Department for Child Protection and Family Support
Women’s Council for Domestic and Family Violence Services (WA)
Department of Communities, Child Safety and Disability Services
The Gold Coast Domestic Violence Integrated Response
Domestic Violence Prevention Centre Gold Coast
Family Safety Meeting group, Limestone Coast, SA
Berry Street Victoria
Family Safety Teams, Kimberley

Project Dates: 2015 – 2016

Contact: Lucy Healey

Publications:

The PATRICIA Project: PAThways and Research In Collaborative Inter-Agency working: State of knowledge paper.

The Collaborative Practice Framework for Child Protection and Specialist Domestic and Family Violence Services – the PATRICIA Project: Key findings and future directions.

PAThways and Research Into Collaborative Inter-Agency practice: Collaborative work across the child protection and specialist domestic and family violence interface – The PATRICIA Program, Research Report.

A Collaborative Practice Framework for Child Protection and Specialist Domestic and Family Violence Services: Bridging the research and practice divide.

Intervening with children living with domestic violence: Is the system safe?

Case reading as a practice and training intervention in domestic violence and child protection.

Facilitating the collaborative interface between child protection and specialist domestic violence services: a scoping review.

Voices from young people living with fathers who use violence (a sub-project from Fathering Challenges)

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The Young People’s Voices Project sought the perspectives of young people aged 9-21 years who have experienced family violence about what makes a good father, the impact of having a father who uses violence on his children as well as how/whether a father who uses violence can make it up to his children. Young people were asked for their views about the degree of involvement they believe young people should have if their father attends a MBC Program and how young people think their voices could be included in these programs as well as the key messages they would like to give to fathers who attend.

There are three video resources from this project. Note due to privacy issues the files should not be downloaded. They can be publicly viewed through Vimeo.

https://vimeo.com/182793691

https://vimeo.com/182793710

Researchers: Dr Katie Lamb (PhD project), Prof Cathy Humphreys Professor Kelsey Hegarty, Dr Kristin Diemer

Funders: Luke Batty Foundation, ARC Linkage

Partners: Bethany Community Support

Project Dates: 2014-2016

Contact: Kristin Diemer